Faith & Science – Lew Andrews, author

The Overpopulation Scare Predicted Today’s Climate Hysteria

Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich’s recent appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes reminds us what can happen when those with impressive academic credentials begin making end-of-the-world predictions. It was 1968 when Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, a book that declared with absolute certainty that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” Because so many people were living so close together …

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The Cheap, Green Energy We Need Is on the Moon

Faith & Science / By Lew Andrews

It’s been hard to miss the excitement since the Energy Department announced that its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had produced a fusion reaction, which, for the first time, unleashed more power than it took to create. Using an array of 192 lasers to superheat and compress hydrogen atoms to more than 180,000,000°F, scientists managed to …

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Just How “Over” Is Covid?

COVID-19, Faith & Science / By Lew Andrews

For all the confusion caused by President Biden’s recent declaration that “the pandemic is over,” and the familiar sight of administration officials rushing to qualify his comment, it raises a question: where does the Covid emergency actually stand? Having gone from draconian lockdowns to a summer of travel chaos in just over two years — …

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The Culture War Inside the U.S. Space Program

Faith & Science / By Lew Andrews

For many, the upcoming launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 (after a botched attempt earlier this week) undoubtedly seems the start of a new and exciting era in space exploration. Not only is the US finally planning to return to the Moon — this time to build a permanent outpost on the lunar surface — but …

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The Spiritual Case for Colonizing Mars

Faith & Science / By Lew Andrews

Ever since the last Apollo mission a half-century ago, the great debate among space-flight enthusiasts has been about what mankind’s next big off-world goal should be: build human settlements on the Moon or make the much longer leap to colonizing Mars. Until the past few years, the argument has been mostly academic, given the lack …

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Government Lockdowns Backfired — Encouraged Defiance

COVID-19, Culture & Politics, Faith & Politics, Faith & Science / By Lew Andrews

I did not intend for this to read like a cautionary editorial. When the Spectator World asked me to do a piece on the BA.2 Omicron subvariant, I thought I would simply be updating readers on the progress of the latest Covid mutation. And while the BA.2 is fast spreading, it appears to be no more life …

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Psychology Rediscovers Religion

Faith & Economics, Faith & Science, Faith and Education / By Lew Andrews

For anyone who took a college course in psychology more than a decade ago or who is even casually acquainted with the subject through popular articles, a close examination of today’s field would undoubtedly prove surprising. The science that for most of the 20th century portrayed itself as the enlightened alternative to organized religion has …

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Finding God on a Mars Colony

Faith & Science / By Lew Andrews

The prospect of colonizing Mars used to be no more than a distant fantasy, but today it seems tantalizingly real. NASA remains committed to building a deep-space passenger capsule called the Orion. Meantime, private companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX are bringing excitement to the field. Elon Musk hopes to put 200 colonists on the …

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Fear of Robots Is the Price of Secularism

Faith & Science, Uncategorized / By Lew Andrews

We read these days that Americans are increasingly worried automation will soon make their labor obsolete. Although this supposed threat to the employability of millions involves the convergence of multiple technologies – including computer programming, chip design, voice recognition, artificial intelligence, and material science – it is most often identified with the word robot, …

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